When the daemon is set to debug/trace, the GUI now automatically writes a
rotated gui-client.log in the user's config dir and the daemon's debug bundle
collects it. The UI learns the level both at startup (daemon already in debug)
and live, by piggybacking the existing SubscribeEvents stream: the daemon
publishes a marked log-level-changed SystemEvent (and a per-subscription
snapshot), which DaemonFeed routes to guilog.DebugLog instead of an OS toast.
The UI registers its log path via a new RegisterUILog RPC so the root daemon,
which can't resolve the user's config dir, knows where to find the file.
Manual --log-file (any value) disables the daemon-driven file logging.
Fix: client/ui SetLogLevel looked up proto.LogLevel_value with the lowercase
logrus name, which never matched the uppercase enum keys and silently fell back
to INFO — so trace/debug requests from the bundle flow had no effect.
* Adds heuristic to detect an edge case on Linux where a system has configured logrotate as a separate service to rotate log files which would mangle our client log files. If we detect logrotate being configured for netbird, we disable our rotation.
* Adds new env var to disable log rotation: NB_LOG_DISABLE_ROTATION
* Adds compressed and plain logrotate files to debug bundle.
* Replaces lumberjack with timberjack (maintained fork with bug fixes and extra features).
* Clarifies which daemon version is running in the bundle stats.
* Change logging for client service status to console
This will allow running netbird commands (including debugging) against the daemon and provide a flow similar to non-container usages.
It will by default both log to file and stderr so it can be handled more uniformly in container-native environments.
updates the logging implementation to use the netbird logger for both ICE and gRPC components. The key changes include:
- Introducing a gRPC logger configuration in util/log.go that integrates with the netbird logging setup.
- Updating the log hook in formatter/hook/hook.go to ensure a default caller is used when not set.
- Refactoring ICE agent and UDP multiplexers to use a unified logger via the new getLogger() method.
```console
journalctl
```
```diff
- Jul 19 14:41:01 rpi /usr/bin/netbird[614]: 2024-07-19T14:41:01+02:00 ERRO %!s(<nil>): error while handling message of Peer [key: REDACTED] error: [wrongly addressed message REDACTED]
- Jul 19 21:53:03 rpi /usr/bin/netbird[614]: 2024-07-19T21:53:03+02:00 WARN %!s(<nil>): disconnected from the Signal service but will retry silently. Reason: rpc error: code = Internal desc = server closed the stream without sending trailers
- Jul 19 21:53:04 rpi /usr/bin/netbird[614]: 2024-07-19T21:53:04+02:00 INFO %!s(<nil>): connected to the Signal Service stream
- Jul 19 22:24:10 rpi /usr/bin/netbird[614]: 2024-07-19T22:24:10+02:00 WARN [error: read udp 192.168.1.11:48398->9.9.9.9:53: i/o timeout, upstream: 9.9.9.9:53] %!s(<nil>): got an error while connecting to upstream
+ Jul 19 14:41:01 rpi /usr/bin/netbird[614]: error while handling message of Peer [key: REDACTED] error: [wrongly addressed message REDACTED]
+ Jul 19 21:53:03 rpi /usr/bin/netbird[614]: disconnected from the Signal service but will retry silently. Reason: rpc error: code = Internal desc = server closed the stream without sending trailers
+ Jul 19 21:53:04 rpi /usr/bin/netbird[614]: connected to the Signal Service stream
+ Jul 19 22:24:10 rpi /usr/bin/netbird[614]: [error: read udp 192.168.1.11:48398->9.9.9.9:53: i/o timeout, upstream: 9.9.9.9:53] got an error while connecting to upstream
```
please notice that although log level is no longer present in the syslog
message it is still respected by syslog logger, so the log levels are
not lost:
```console
journalctl -p 3
```
```diff
- Jul 19 14:41:01 rpi /usr/bin/netbird[614]: 2024-07-19T14:41:01+02:00 ERRO %!s(<nil>): error while handling message of Peer [key: REDACTED] error: [wrongly addressed message REDACTED]
+ Jul 19 14:41:01 rpi /usr/bin/netbird[614]: error while handling message of Peer [key: REDACTED] error: [wrongly addressed message REDACTED]
```
* feature: add logging to a file
* refactor: move InitLog to util lib
* docs: update signal and management docs
* chore: update docker compose
* set --log-file to console
* chore: comment out log volume in docker compose
Co-authored-by: mlsmaycon <mlsmaycon@gmail.com>
